Use perceived in a sentence
Sentences ending with perceived
- She was certainly to be pitied if love had taken as firm a hold upon her heart as Cordula thought she had perceived. [10]
- The importance of this matter is hardly yet perceived. [4]
- Men perceive, and their brain-machines automatically combine the things perceived. [5]
- But this question shews some confusion on the subject; a noise is the sensation resulting from the co-existence of several aerial "simple vibrations" of various periods, each of which intermits so frequently that its separate existence cannot be perceived. [1]
Short sentences using perceived
- My father perceived this too. [10]
- He must have perceived me. [9]
- Ditmar, too, had perceived it! [9]
More example sentences with the word perceived in them
- He perceived that you were a man of ability, sir--" "And that was just the reason," said the Honourable Brush, "that he couldn't make you more useful just now. [9]
- The cunning woman would have perceived his purpose and betrayed it to the Regent. [10]
- To offer resistance would have been madness, for even Hermon perceived, by the loud clanking of weapons around them, the greatly superior power of the enemy, and they were acting by the orders of the King. [10]
- Some long minutes wore away; at last he thought he perceived that Hermas had raised himself. [10]
- A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and I was not sorry to get rid of such a dull, slow mass as I now perceived myself to be, lying there on the bed. [4]
- If Eva had witnessed his death she would have perceived the aptness of the saying that a monk's life is bitter, but his death is sweet. [10]
- And she, too, with the subtle senses of a disembodied spirit, must have had a yearning towards him, for she had perceived all the depth and fervor of his passion. [10]
- Once I went with Sir David Brewster, and perceived that he looked on objects with other eyes than mine. [14]
- He also listened with keen attention when the scientists finally discussed in low tones what they had perceived, and caught the words, "White scar on the cornea," "leucoma," and "operation. [10]
- He now gazed with eager observation down the path which, as the day approached, stood out with increasing clearness from the surrounding shades, and his heart began to beat faster as he perceived a figure approaching the well, with rapid steps. [10]
- She perceived this with annoyance and perplexity. [10]
- Cousin Maud hastened with all zeal to do honor to friends and guests so dear; but as she reached the door she stood still as in doubt, and signed to me so that I perceived that somewhat had gone wrong. [10]
- I can only wish that I were younger, that my arm were stronger, and that I had always perceived the truth as clearly as I see it now. [9]
- Through the open window Honora perceived the form of Joshua asleep in the hammock, his Sunday coat all twisted under him. [9]
- The dark shape, whose incessant motion could be clearly perceived whenever the starlight broke through the clouds, appeared first near the city of the dead and the strangers' quarter. [10]
- The merry party, who now perceived that they had interrupted the nocturnal tryst of lovers, did not instantly know what to do and, as one looked enquiringly at another, an embarrassed silence followed their noisy jollity. [10]
- It was Matthew who first perceived the ship, and identified it, by the card, as his property. [9]
- He perceived Senator Whitredge, returned from the Pelican. [9]
- The means by which she had intended to destroy him had been transformed into a benefit, and while in the desert he had perceived how often man finally blesses, as the highest gain, what he at first regarded as the most cruel affliction. [10]
- One bitter day, when the sun smiled mockingly on the powdered common, a horseman was perceived on the Fort Chartres road. [9]
- How she reddened when she perceived the faces turned her way! [9]
- My heart rejoiced when I perceived that every one shared this appreciation. [10]
- Fran Lerch perceived what was passing in her mind, and instilled courage until she had finished her work and held up the mirror before Barbara. [10]
- And Philostratus perceived what was going on in her mind, and with the exhortation, "Remember how many persons' weal or woe lies in your hands! [10]
- When he perceived what had occurred, and saw his faithful follower, with a face distorted by pain, rubbing his shoulder, his cheeks flushed angrily, and with just indignation he rebuked Siebenburg for his unseemly intrusion into his quarters and his brutal conduct. [10]
- Once her Cause were perceived, once her whole energy were directed towards its fulfilment, the prophets would arise, out of the East and out of the West, to stir mankind to higher effort, to denounce fearlessly the shortcomings and evils of the age. [9]
- Twice or thrice we seemed to get the signal, and a shout was just ready to break from the men's lips when they perceived it was a false alarm. [5]
- By and by we perceived what those super-delicate colors, and their continuous play and movement, reminded us of; it is what one sees in a soap-bubble that is drifting along, catching changes of tint from the objects it passes. [5]
- She perceived how waterfall after waterfall was quenching the flames which burned in Don John's honest soul for the supposed welfare of the nation intrusted to him. [10]
- At first I was very cautious, but when I perceived that the opinions of the doubters and deniers merely inspired her with pity, I spoke more freely. [10]
- My first purpose was to have the man make a collection of caves and afterwards of echoes; but perceived that the element of absurdity and impracticability was so nearly identical as to amount to a repetition of an idea..... [5]
- Barbara perceived what was passing in his thoughts, and also noticed how her dress had become disarranged during her work. [10]
- When the game was over, a different one followed, perhaps something which rendered the little hands skilful by preparing fine weaving from strips of paper; for Froebel had perceived that change brought rest. [10]
- At first it was Mr. Barbo alone who perceived Eliphalet's greatness,--Mr. Barbo, whose opinions were so easily had that they counted for nothing. [9]
- In his place was his father--Prince Andrew--and his father had neither shape nor form, but he existed, and when little Nicholas perceived him he grew faint with love: he felt himself powerless, limp, and formless. [2]
- But the enemy was evidently delayed, and Ephraim easily perceived the cause of their diminished speed; for the road constantly grew softer and the narrow wheels of the chariots cut deeply into it and perhaps sank to the axles. [10]
- But Mr. Cooke was an optimist, and as such disposed to look at the best side of his friends and ignore the worst; if, indeed, he perceived their faults at all. [9]
- But maybe it was altogether too delicate, for nobody ever perceived the satire part of it at all. [5]
- Perhaps--" But the viscount perceived that some more questions were about to be asked; so he worked his way out of the crowd, released the sleeve, put on the coat and wandered away to seek a humble and obscure lodging. [5]
- Assuming that you, upon the ground, could better judge of the necessities of your position than I could at this distance, on seeing your proclamation of August 30 I perceived no general objection to it. [7]
- The lamp-light fell upon his face, and the lines she had formerly perceived looked like deep shadows between his eyes and mouth. [10]
- A smile played upon her lips as she perceived young Hermas, who had already been for some time leaning motionless against the wall of the house opposite, and devouring with his gaze the figure of the beautiful young woman. [10]
- Honora picked them up, and it was then she perceived that the tears were raining down the good lady's cheeks. [9]
- There is an unusually fine railway station; so large is it, in fact, that it seemed somewhat overdone, in the matter of size, at first; but at the end of a few months it was perceived that the mistake was distinctly the other way. [5]
- As her maid unfastened her gown she perceived that her pincushion had been replaced by the one she had received at the ball. [9]
- At the corner, turning fearfully, he perceived the man in the overcoat calmly preparing to unload his wood. [9]
- Then some one tried the door, peered in through the glass, perceived Jethro, shook the knob, knocked violently, all to no purpose. [9]
- By her references to what this and that and the other person had told her, I perceived that she had been diligently questioning those crowds of visiting strangers, and that out of them she had patiently dug all this mass of invaluable knowledge. [5]
- We were urged to treat the princesses with the utmost courtesy and consideration, and we perceived that their reception really demanded respect; for the palace, which we had found empty and desolate, was refurnished from roof to foundation. [10]
- It pained me to see him looking more worn, but he was still as cheerful, as mentally vigorous as ever, and I perceived that he did not wish to dwell upon his illness. [9]
- Here he intended to rest and, as he gazed around him, he perceived in the shadow of an overhanging cliff a man's tall figure. [10]
- On the ride to Nuremberg he had perceived in Heinz a pious heart and a keen intellect which yearned for higher things. [10]
- When I came to myself again and began to listen, I perceived that I had lost another chapter, and that Alisande had wandered a long way off with her people. [5]
- Nevertheless, thanks partly to good fortune, and to the farseeing wisdom of our early statesmen who perceived that the success of our experiment depended upon the maintenance of an isolation from European affairs, we established democracy as a practical form of government. [9]
- John Paul alighted to face this personage, who, the moment he perceived us, shifted his welcoming look to one of such withering scorn as would have daunted a more timid man than the captain. [9]
- When she hoped to destroy you, she perceived in this deed the happiness which had been promised to her on a night when the full moon was shining. [10]
- At the same time, methought that for certain some new and terrible sorrow hung over us nay, never so clearly as then, after Abenberger's violent attack, had I perceived how much alone and without protection I stood in the world. [10]
- For the first time I perceived, in examining the fruits of the labour of so many days and nights, the vast disproportion between the magnitude of the subject and my untrained powers. [10]
- They had got through the gate and were in the Canopic way when Dada suddenly perceived that his lips were white, and felt the arm tremble on which her hand was lying. [10]
- He had taken three turns before he perceived me. [9]
- He had not thought of asking its value; indeed, only a connoisseur would have perceived it; and as the circlet was not showy and well became her beautiful arm, Barine liked to wear it. [10]
- When Smith perceived this treachery he fired into the "naked devils" who were in sight. [4]
- Quijada had said this to himself, and perceived plainly enough what was passing in the young knight's thoughts. [10]
- Though Barbara at this time rarely left her own fireside, her husband might often have wished that she would return to the conduct of the previous winter, for he perceived the torturing anxiety which was consuming her. [10]
- The causes of this strange change of opinion and mood would have been sufficiently intelligible to him, even had he not perceived one of the reproving glances which Frau Lerch cast at Barbara. [10]
- It was at this moment that he perceived, pushing towards him with an air of rescue, the figure of his vestryman, Mr. Wallis Plimpton. [9]
- I perceived by this how radically and grotesquely wrong had been the life-long education of my body and members. [5]
- The really astonishing thing about Jethro's foresight (known to few only) was that he perceived clearly that the time would come when the railroads and other aggregations of capital would exterminate the boss, or at least subserviate him. [9]
- He perceived that they were a quarrelsome people, which possessed the lust for land and conquest like the rest of their blood. [9]
- You saw that there was a supernatural property in the hair of Samson; for you perceived that when his hair was gone he was as other men. [5]
- Every now and then she perceived that his eye rested on her with a compassionate expression, and when she inquired whether he were anxious about the sufferer, he gave her some evasive answer, quite unlike his usual decisive speech. [10]
- The blood-stained butcher then perceived that Caesar's murderous sword might be turned against him also. [10]
- She had learned them by listening to old Hekt, who often used to play on a lute in the dusk, and who, when she perceived that Uarda caught the melodies, had pointed out her faults, and given her advice. [10]
- Likewise they approved the well-devised plan which he had proposed for the bettering of such matters, and my heart beat high with pride as I perceived the great esteem in which the worshipful elders of our town held their younger fellow. [10]
- Nodding at Simmons, the watchman, he hurried up the iron-shod stairs, gained the outer once, and instantly perceived that her chair beside the window was empty! [9]
- She listened with the tension of terror to the sound of the steps which came straight towards her nearer and nearer, then the wanderer perceived the faint gleam of her white dress, and called out to her. [10]
- Anukis's eye perceived the tall figure of Philostratus. [10]
- Yet she dreaded the solitude which she was approaching, for she now perceived how foolishly she had acted, and with what sinful recklessness she had perhaps forfeited the happiness of her life on this luckless evening. [10]
- She acquiesced in the recognition of herself as the authoress of "Jane Eyre," because she perceived that there were some advantages to be derived from dropping her pseudonym. [14]
- However, he perceived the object now of Euphrasia's visit, and began to take the liveliest interest in it. [9]
- Once early in the morning, a multitude of white villas not before perceived, revealed themselves on the far hills; then we recognized that all those great hills are snowed thick with them, clear to the summit. [5]
- Milo had perceived the momentary weakness. [10]
- The witch perceived the little man. [10]
- Across the street the light in Mr. Tiernan's shop was still burning, and through the window she perceived Mr. Tiernan himself tilted back in his chair, his feet on the table, the tip of his nose pointed straight at the ceiling. [9]
- He perceived that the Judge was no nonentity in this new party. [9]
- The captain of the guards perceived this and, touched by the horror of the man whose resolution had hitherto seemed peerless, called to him: "They don't all come home like that, no indeed! [10]
- Maude, seated on the floor, perceived me first, and glanced up at me with a smile. [9]
- Crew perceived that the exercise had heightened her colour, and the transition appealed to his sense of beauty. [9]
- She now blew the dust from the frame and canvas, and perceived the signature of the artist to whom the picture owed its origin. [10]
- It was scarcely the daughter of Archias who had detained Hermon, for he made only a brief answer--Ledscha could not hear what it was--when she accosted him pleasantly, to devote himself to Althea, and--this could be perceived even at a distance--thank her with ardent devotion. [10]
- When he perceived the Congo his face lighted up with rage, and he instinctively reached for his whip. [9]
- The man, whom the baron had called the fencing-master Allertssohn, had just perceived that the "Glippers" cloaks were hanging by the fire, while his friend's and his own were flung on a bench. [10]
- It was flattering that they should honour her simple home by their visits, but she knew that Caesarion came without his tutor's knowledge, and perceived, by the expression of his eyes, what drew him to her daughter. [10]
- He now perceived that there was likely to be a miscarriage of justice here, and he rose to the occasion. [5]
- Then I perceived that there was but small hope; with a heavy heart, and, indeed, a secret intent behind, I took the task upon me, for I saw plainly that my refusal would ruin all. [10]
- She perceived also that the mazes of politics were not to be understood by a young woman, of even by an old soldier. [9]
- Mr. Dodd perceived that the judge was trying to get him to commit himself, and would then proceed to annihilate him. [9]
- And Hodder perceived that the face, if the stamp of this expression could have been removed, was not unpleasing, although indulgence and recklessness were beginning to remould it. [9]
- William Wetherell perceived that the conversation, for the moment at least, was safely away from politics, and in that dubious state where it was difficult to reopen. [9]
- The bishop perceived that the brother and sister had business to discuss together, and asked whether he were not interrupting it. [10]
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